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22-year-old Tory Brown was gunned down by officers who said he had a warrant out of Clayton County for violation of probation, and that he refused to comply with police demands to exit the apartment

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Former Louisiana State Trooper Jacob Brown was caught on camera beating Black man Aaron Bowman over the head with a flashlight and calling it "pain compliance" despite the fact that Bowman is heard on camera shouting, "I'm not resisting," and the video doesn't show him doing anything violent.

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FALLS CHURCH, Va. (AP) — A Black defendant’s right to a fair trial would be harmed if the jury heard the case in a courtroom lined with portraits of white jurists, a northern Virginia judge has ruled. The upcoming trial of Terrance Shipp on charges of eluding police will be held in a courtroom that […]

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A Columbus, Ohio cop activated their body camera after a Dec. 22 shooting where a 47-year-old Black man was killed while holding a cell phone.

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Jamar Mackey learned that going to the mall with his family as a Black man is another simple thing we can't do without fear of handcuffs being slapped on us.

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Gregory Bush, 53, will spend the rest of his life in prison for the 2018 hate crime shooting of Maurice Stallard, 69, and Vickie Lee Jones, 67, at a Kroger supermarket in Jeffersontown, Kentucky.

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MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Minnesota’s pardon board will consider freeing a Black man who was imprisoned for life as a teenager in the 2002 slaying of an 11-year-old girl hit by a stray bullet while doing homework at her dining room table. The case scheduled for Tuesday made headlines earlier this year after The Associated Press […]

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COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — A U.S. attorney said Tuesday that investigators from the Justice Department and FBI will help review the fatal shooting by an Ohio sheriff’s deputy of a Black man whose family says that he was holding a sandwich, not a gun, and that he was shot in front of his grandmother and […]

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SALEM, Ore. (AP) — The killing of a young Black man last month by a white man who complained that he was playing loud music has roiled Ashland, Oregon, forcing the liberal college town that is famous for its Shakespeare festival to take a hard look at race relations. The death of Aidan Ellison, 19, […]

ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — A St. Paul officer who shot and wounded a Black man who was being sought by police when the man emerged naked from a dumpster was trying to protect his fellow officers and himself, according to his attorney. Anthony Dean‘s lawyer, Robert Paule, said the man, identified by state investigators […]

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Donald Trump didn’t invent racism but he damn sure has emboldened people to put their disdain for Black folks on full display without fear of consequence. A Black family in Discovery Bay, California had to endure one of these belligerent bigots earlier this week. According to WMC Action News, the Jones family has lived in their […]

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Victor Glover became the first Black astronaut to serve as a crew member at the station on Sunday (Nov. 15) when he boarded a SpaceX Crew Dragon capsule named Resilience and rocketed up to the International's Space Station.